(CNSNews.com)  In a June 30 memorandum, John Morton, assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said that enforcing civil immigration laws is vital to our national security, public safety, and the integrity of our border and immigration controls.

But Morton also said that ICE only has the resources to remove about 400,000 illegal aliens each year, a litle less than 4 percent of the current population of those in the United States illegally.

OK, get it done! Next year, there will be another x %; Obama’s alternative is to just waffle and let them all stay. Screw that, they’re stealing the jobs of my 12 and 14 year old kids - they need that money for college!

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posted on 07/06/2010 9:24:35 PM PDT
by Rembrandt
(.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)

They also don't have the people to properly process all the illegals for amnesty either. If they processed the current illegals like they process legal immigrants it would take them 30 years to handle them. No jobs, no welfare, no education and they will self deport..or starve.

1. Publicize that illegals have 60 days to leave the country, no questions asked.
2. An illegal caught after 60 days will spend 20 years in jail, no parole.
3. Anyone employing an illegal after 60 days will be fined $20,000 per infraction and 100 days of community service.

Solution quite simple: why chase after them when you can simply get between them and what they need?

Creatively redeploy those agents into hitting the fixed targets and guarding the choke points. Concentrate on auditing businesses for illegals and fining the pants off them for employment violations. They could make employment dry up for them without arresting a soul.

Post agents checking ID at the doors of courthouses, municipal and county social services buildings, DMV’s, schools and emergency rooms. Cut them off from the social freebies.

Investigate landlords and fine them for housing illegals.

You don’t need to send out investigators to find the culprits, just put up a website that takes tips. Allow tipsters to send in photos, video clips and google-map coordinates and advertise it on TV and radio. You’ll get more leads than you can handle.

No need to conduct jackbooted sweeps or grab people off the streets just cut the illegals off from jobs and gov’t services and they’ll have to self-deport.

During the 1950s, however, this "Good Old Boy" system changed under Eisenhower - if only for about 10 years.

In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.

Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing's close connections to the president shielded him - and the Border Patrol - from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.

One of Swing's first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.

Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetback" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day.By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.

By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.

By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.

Don't know about the rest of you, but I know that the same brainless politicians who keep asserting that We can't deport 12 million people!" will, with a straight face, and as convincingly, repeat the statement applied to 12,000.

It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that if the underlying assumption is that "it can't be done," it WON'T get done.

Many of our Fed Govt bureaucracies are “false fronts”..they cannot really deal with but a tiny percentage of what they rule.

For example, Old recalled report: Bush, in his first term, early, offered amnesty to illegals. 750 thousand took the time to fill out paperwork and submitted it to immigration authorities in 50 states. The govt could only process 20 thousand of them, and the rest now reside in a Washington, DC area warehouse. The rest gave up in frustration.

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posted on 07/06/2010 9:50:54 PM PDT
by givemELL
(Does Taiwan eet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)

Turn it over to the military to keep these illegal immigrants from coming over the border. Our nation is under attack by Mexican drug cartels, for heaven’s sake. Treat it like the military action that it is.

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posted on 07/06/2010 10:37:11 PM PDT
by Patriot777
(Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)

I'm so tired of the strawman argument that the MSM and even sometimes Fox gives. There is no need for mass deportations. You don't need to round anyone up all you need is for a coordinated effort on the federal, state and local level to enforce existing laws.

Seal the border, use a fence, use the military use unmanned drones. Just close it and control who comes in. Next, prosecute employers and give employers an easy way to check people's status. Will there be mistakes? Sure, but these can be handled on a case by case basis. Everyone here legally has some form of ID, what's the big deal about producing it? Any employer found hiring an illegal, ruin them financially. This regime seems to have no problem doing that to law abiding citizens, why not the dirtbags who hire illegals. Finally, cut off ALL benefits to illegals. No free healthcare except basic lifesaving, no free education or housing and no drivers license or credit cards. While your at it, enforce the zoning laws. If a house is built for a family of six and 30 people live there, seize it and prosecute the owner.

Do this and within 10 years the illegal problem will be pretty much solved. Watch how wages for the average worker increase.

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